Hacker News: NicholasGurrhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=NicholasGurrHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:20:15 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by NicholasGurr in "My takeaways from 12 months of therapy"]]>My purpose would remain unchanged. What you’re asking is almost the same as asking, “If a person exists who is better (smarter, stronger, more attractive) than you, what point is there in existing?” Because I experience life subjectively and would prefer to continue doing that.

]]>Sat, 04 Jan 2025 14:32:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42594857NicholasGurrhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42594857https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42594857<![CDATA[New comment by NicholasGurr in "uBlock Origin GPL code being stolen by team behind honey browser extension"]]>See also: you wouldn’t download a pizza.

]]>Fri, 03 Jan 2025 16:37:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42587079NicholasGurrhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42587079https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42587079<![CDATA[New comment by NicholasGurr in "Covid 5 years later: Learning from a pandemic many are forgetting"]]>I found Klaus Schwab’s HN burner account!

> let’s modify peoples’ genes and make them eat bugs

]]>Fri, 03 Jan 2025 08:25:59 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42583710NicholasGurrhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42583710https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42583710<![CDATA[New comment by NicholasGurr in "Covid 5 years later: Learning from a pandemic many are forgetting"]]>A lot of the contradictory nonsense was simply a result of the election year. As such, cynical people in power were aware they could make recommendations that would be unhelpful to the incumbent president’s re-election. Low economic activity AND civil unrest were both great factors for getting Trump out.

]]>Fri, 03 Jan 2025 08:21:26 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42583690NicholasGurrhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42583690https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42583690<![CDATA[New comment by NicholasGurr in "Covid 5 years later: Learning from a pandemic many are forgetting"]]>It’s funny because a few of the comments are fairly tame and completely apolitical, but they get flagged anyway because someone reads, “I still want to know what the science is on masks…” and interprets that as “fuck masks!!!”

]]>Fri, 03 Jan 2025 07:48:47 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42583529NicholasGurrhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42583529https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42583529<![CDATA[New comment by NicholasGurr in "ASCII porn predates the Internet but it's still everywhere (2019)"]]>Here, let me answer that for you:

No.

]]>Thu, 02 Jan 2025 10:45:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42573374NicholasGurrhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42573374https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42573374<![CDATA[New comment by NicholasGurr in "FBI: Largest homemade explosives cache in agency history found in Virginia"]]>4chan echo chamber shit. I’d guess more than half of it starts as trolling, but some people run with it. Same way QAnon became a thing.

]]>Wed, 01 Jan 2025 22:19:27 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42569789NicholasGurrhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42569789https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42569789<![CDATA[New comment by NicholasGurr in "Tell HN: Happy New Year HN"]]>Agreed. Happy New Year!

- Dr. Nick Gurr

]]>Tue, 31 Dec 2024 23:44:02 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42562723NicholasGurrhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42562723https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42562723